Global Product Safety Manager

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Position Overview:

In this position, as the Global Product Safety Manager, you will lead the product safety function for Rockwell Automation. The scope of this role is global and enterprise-wide across all products and solutions in Rockwell Automation and 3rd party suppliers. You will deliver business results by championing a culture of accountability and consistent application of the Rockwell Automation product safety standards. You will facilitate and motivate, work across departments and businesses to ensure collaboration, communication, visibility, and successful delivery of the industry leading product safety program at Rockwell Automation.

Your Responsibilities:

As a Global Product Safety Manager responsible for Rockwell Automation-wide product safety, you will:

• Manage a team of product safety experts and distributed product safety coordinators throughout Rockwell Automation businesses.
• Provide the vision, strategy, and leadership on product safety and incorporating industry best practices to improve the internal processes and functions.
• Own the maintenance and improvement of the company product safety policies and procedures.
• Drive awareness and education throughout the company.
• Ensure product safety is considered within new product introductions and in assessing post-release product safety incidents.
• Stay current in industry product safety standards and leveraging that knowledge in your work.
• Interact with Rockwell Automation business groups such as engineering, product management, legal, technical support, product quality, customer quality, and technical communications as you execute on your product safety work.
• Develop effective and efficient metrics to measure, monitor, and report on effectiveness of the product safety controls and compliance with product safety policies and processes.
• Act upon and communicate product safety issues with the appropriate level of urgency.
• Maintain and improve product safety awareness training and migrate to new tools as appropriate.
• Ensure departmental compliance with Rockwell Automation policies and procedures and provide appropriate guidance when requested.
• Support team on day-to-day product safety work when needed, such as post-release risk assessments and product safety disclosures.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Ability to travel, including internationally, up to 15% of time.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Typically requires 8+ years of direct management experience in product safety or product quality.
• 3+ years of engineering/quality management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in technical discipline.
• Direct experience working with products that serve industrial markets.
• Working knowledge of key product safety standards, such as Safe Electrical Work Practices in the Workplace.
• Practical experience with product development of application software and/or embedded systems, ideally in industrial automation.
• Experience providing transformation leadership and change management.

What We Offer:

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.